Nationwide individual record linkage study showed poor agreement of causes of death and hospital diagnoses at individual level but reasonable agreement at population level

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 160-168

  Klijs, Bart ^a,b   Nusselder, Wilma J ^a   Mackenbach, Johan P ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Death certificates; Hospital records; Main diagnosis; Medical record linkage; Quality control

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ANUS CANCER; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BRONCHIECTASIS; CATARACT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COLON CANCER; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; ICD-9-CM; KIDNEY DISEASE; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; REGISTRATION; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84891630110     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2013.07.017     Document Type: Article

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